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LaChanz t1_ja5dwmn wrote

It's a glandular thing. We're taking all kinds of meds for it.

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JudgmentKooky1007 t1_ja5hhu7 wrote

Same reason we drive big trucks. To compensate for other unnamed deficiencies.

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zt004 t1_ja5hmdt wrote

Had to compete with Missouri in 1820

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sudsymugs t1_ja5idk7 wrote

“You can’t get there from here” worked on the settlers, apparently

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professor_cheX t1_ja5rwxi wrote

“It’s not the size it’s what you do with it.” - Rhode Island (probably)……..giggity

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gamertag0311 t1_ja5scib wrote

It's just a distortion from the map projection used (like an optical illusion).

Maine is really only the size of Augusta and south on that map /s

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Lady-Kat1969 t1_ja5yjw6 wrote

It got that way by devouring the smaller states bordering it. Nobody outside Maine dares to mention New Suffolk, Umbagog, Charlottesylvania, and the others for fear of suffering the same fate.

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1kft t1_ja66gjk wrote

It's so the state name fits, and not out in the ocean...

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showdogz t1_ja69rht wrote

They got plum tired of naming states and marking the territory so the rest is all just Maine.

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Redwif t1_ja6evap wrote

Maine is bigger than all the other New England states combined.

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ozzie286 t1_ja6f72q wrote

"Maine" is short for "Mainland", and used to encompass the entirety of North America. Then as people settled they split their own states and countries off of Maine. Current Maine is the leftover bits that no one else wanted.

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Stonesword75 t1_ja6knn8 wrote

So the British could never find Jonathan Eddy's secret treasure.

Legend has it, that the one who finds the treasure would hold the power to overpower the Atlantic Canadian Provinces. A power that was rumored to have played a role in the Aroostok War of 1839, which was really a ploy by the French-Canadian immigrants to take revenge against English Crown. However, after witnessing this power, the founder of the treasure buried it where it still remains hidden to this day.

Some believe the former Governor Percival Baxter was once told of the location by overhearing a discussion between his father (Mayor James Baxter of Portland) and none other than Joshua Chamberlain himself, who believed the treasure caused the Gubernatorial Dispute of 1880 that would have resulted in a takeover of the Maine State House that would push for another war with Canada. Chamberlain confided into Mayor Baxter his reasoning to hide the treasure to avoid more atrocious war and destruction, and how he prays no one would dig in the area he placed it. Percival, a young man who idolized Chamberlain, made it his life's work to ensure the treasure was never found, thus Baxter State Park. Or so the story goes.

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Kaayth t1_ja6w1fz wrote

It's just winter weight man, don't judge.

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charons-voyage t1_ja7jdco wrote

Maine gets its name from being the “Main” state in NE. This statement may or may not be true.

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shopgirl56 t1_ja7n291 wrote

Whoopie pies & Fat Ass in a Glass -aka Allen's coffee brandy & milk.

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hogrider01 t1_ja7qq5j wrote

Well you see it’s like this. The extra space was needed for the Massholes of the future to take refuge in after totally screwing their state up.

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joeydokes t1_ja7vqpg wrote

Needed a state big enough for Rich assholes to own a million acres or two. Better than the state of Irving

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jihadgis t1_ja7vtk3 wrote

At the insistence of New Brunswick, no doubt

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wermbo t1_ja8o88g wrote

Everything looks bigger when youre staring up at it

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whitlink t1_ja8peme wrote

Have you seen how big a moose really is. They are monsters and need all that room.

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lemartineau t1_ja8vjg0 wrote

Most of it should be Quebec. Canada needs a Sherbrooke QC to St-John NB hwy

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Amdy_vill t1_ja8x1g6 wrote

The extra land was won from Canada in the Great lobster moose eating competition in 1830. We absorbed the provinces of moosewood.

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cathar_here t1_ja8zmsz wrote

deer tick bites have caused more and more swelling over the last 35-40 years

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sjm294 t1_ja9ig32 wrote

We need more room to spread out because we’re fiercely independent

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Direct_Fox2908 t1_jac5v9c wrote

Maine is easily the best state in new england but it has so many things working against it that wont be addressed..sigh

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XonikzD t1_jach8o6 wrote

Cartographers just stopped exploring and drew random lines

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hike_me t1_jad7x4y wrote

Replying to Choof-Monster-2017 (#2,045,947)

A bunch of loyalists fled there during the revolution.

The post 9/11 border restrictions, lack of a year round ferry connecting it to the rest of New Brunswick, and difficulty accessing Canadian healthcare have really made things difficult for residents. Lots of abandoned / run down houses now. It quite sad.

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